Need search box & simple drop down menu

All I am wanting are these 2 things!

[Village Idiot]

Could somebody please help me here...! I am in the process of putting together a site, and all that I am in search of are these 2 VERY BASIC things.... #1. A Simple search box (an internal search) for my sites inventory, and #2. A Simple Drop Down (Scrolling) menu that is to go right along side it....!!! Im not is search of any of these Outrageous Java Script Static Hot Dog Menus that are abound everywhere.... All that I am looking for is the same old basic simple yet functional [search box and scrollable drop down menu] for my site...! The "SAME ONES" that are seen on Probly at LEAST 100,000 Million other websites... I know Im going to get Blasted here when I say this BUT what I am useing is FP98.... I would use "Their" Search "form" and "Their" drop down "menu" BUT I Hate "Their" appearance.... "Their" Search has Both the buttons (search and reset) directly below the box itself and the form is totally unconfigureable meaning one cannot re-size or alter the search tags in anyway shape or form.!!! And as far as "Their" drop down menu goes, well thats all it is, is a drop down, Again, totally unconfigureable..!!! What I am wanting is a Simple drop down menu, but I need it to be a "Scrollable" drop down menu..!!! I see BOTH of these two that I am wanting on litterally Countless sites everywhere I go..... All I am wanting are the 2 basic lean and mean Boxes, the "Search" box, where all it says is (search, with the box just to the right of it) for my internal site search.... and then the other drop down Menu just to the right of that where when you click on that down goes the "Scrollable" list and when one clicks onto an item on the list it automatically takes you to that link...! Am I asking for too much here??? Heres the problem..... I have literally spent Countless hours of searching everywhere for these 2 but I CANNOT find either one of them Anywhere..??? Can somebody PLEASE give me some suggestions on WHERE I might go to find these...???? Where is everybody else getting these so Commonly seen and used 2 types of menus/ search boxes????? I hope you all are visualizing the simple drop down scrollable menu and search box that I have been attempting to describe here..???

Someone, Anyone Please help me with this... I am literally about at my witts end here that seems to be so basic yet Im having such a Bitch of a time trying to find....!!!!!!!!!

Any help would be Tremendously Appreciated..!!!!!

Signed ....... The Village Idiot

[brotherhood of LAN]

hey idiot ;)

i was in the same boat as you (FP98 etc). I shouldnt say this (ive said it three times this week) but you might want to try the FDSE search engine. Tis free, and its gonna do what you are asking.....it even offers examples of different forms you may want to use to utilise your search

it is written in perl and if you have probs installing, their is an automatic install feature for the site

and by the way, I dont own that site, but i really do recommend it ;)

hope it helps

[Key_Master]

Here's some HTML you can modify to make your pulldown menu. Hope it helps.

<form name="jump" onmouseover="self.status='My Pulldown Menu';return true">
<select name="menu" onchange="location=document.jump.menu.options[document.jump.menu.selectedIndex].value;" value="GO">
<option value="http://www.somesite.com/link1.htm">Menu Text 1</option>
<option value="http://www.somesite.com/link2.htm">Menu Text 2</option>
<option value="http://www.somesite.com/link3.htm">Menu Text 3</option>
<option value="http://www.somesite.com/link4.htm">Menu Text 4</option>
</select>
</form>

[mack]

I would second what brotherhood_of_lan said about FDSE (fluid dynamics search engine) it is a great free search engine that even has an auto installer for newbies. You can easilt customise your page looks using css. You can have it look just like any other section of your website with your logo etc and it looks a lot more profesional that a remotly hosted service simply because it stays on your server. If you do wish to use a remotly hosted service try freefind.com as the name sugests it is free to use but they do place adverts on your results pages.